The sheriff of Epitaph, Texas, Dan Shaye was a hard but just defender of the law -- a devoted husband and father who kept the truth about his violent past from the townfolk he protected. But then the hardcase Ethan Langer gang galloped into town...
A Debt to the Dead
For Daniel Shaye and his boys, the law comes second, family first. So when a letter -- an urgent cry for help -- arrives from a woman who claims to be the mother of a child sired by Shaye's late son, Matthew, the...
Gold is the pay dirt in all these rip-roaring western stories, more of Erle Stanley Gardner’s Whispering Sands series with their unique desert setting. Again the master storyteller features his rugged western hero, the philosophical prospector Bob...
Outlaw Ford Oakley has a date with a hangman's noose--and it's up to Longarm to bring him in for justice. But Longarm is scarcely on his way when he gets shot in the gut--and his prisoner escapes. Someone has to find Oakley quick--before his next...
When Skye Fargo comes across a dead man near the town of Cawthorne, he figures he'll bring the body to town for burial. But he learns soon enough that dying has been real easy to do in Cawthorne lately. Someone in town has developed a taste for...
As the Revolutionary war draws to an end, the violence on the frontier only accelerates. The infamous Girty brothers incite Indians to a number to massacres, but when the Village of Peace, a Christian utopian settlement is destroyed, the settlers...
Up in Dakota Territory, two tribes are at each other's throats. So the government sends Longarm to patch things up--as if one U.S. Marshal can stop hundreds of warriors from killing each...
When he starts to care again--about the scout who saved his life and the woman and child he rescued from the Indians--Lieutenant Steve Stryker, who is on a mission of vengeance against the man who disfigured his face, must come to terms with his...